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Owen Pallett → Heartland → “Oh Heartland, Up Yours!”

Lyrics

The stars collected.
Each world accounted for.
Freed all the children.
Seems there’s nothing more.

If I only had a rowboat, I would row it up to heaven.
And if heaven would not have me, I would take the other option.
I will seek out my own satisfaction.

From the wight lying in the barrow,
To the priest with his broken arrows.
There’s a method to the madness.
They will feign an expression of sadness.
A concatenation of locusts,
And the farmers are losing their focus.
On the pitch of the Avenroe grasses
I will sing, sing, sing to the masses
Oh Heartland, up yours!

The hollow voice of our 14th century.
Too much assumption to be taken seriously.

Oh, you wrote me like a Disney kid, in cut-offs and a beater
With a feathered fringe, it doesn’t suit a simoniac breeder.
Doesn’t work, doesn’t fly, doesn’t handle.

From the wight lying in the barrow,
To the priest with his broken arrows.
There’s a method to the madness.
They will feign an expression of sadness.
A concatenation of locusts,
And the farmers are losing their focus.
On the pitch of the Avenroe grasses
I will sing, sing, sing to the masses
Oh Heartland, up yours!

My homeland.
I will not sing your praises here.

Personnel

Owen Pallett
Minimoog synth
Mellotron
Wurlitzer electric piano
Jeremy Gara
electric bass
kit
John Marshman
cello
Mio Þórrison
sound effects
The St. Kitts’ Winds
The Czech Symphony Strings